The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 1

erly winds | Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 55. Minimum, 49. Today noon, VOL Entered as Second Class Matter 26. NO. 90 A if Power Home Brew Howdy, folks! Hooray for the geed old vacation daze! The 1 ca swing ont oy One on a Soap Box, One at § Sump- n see tuous Banquet; Both Win Success * ot want 8 ia St atek We OWN on Occidental ave. Friday night a soap box orator harangued a crowd of men. It was composed of poorly- dressed fellows—loggers from the woods. Mill workers, Some had lost their jobs; others had suffered wage Many had not eaten since morning. vhene aii, they were blue. The chill wind and the dark sky were too.” she |in keeping with their outlook on the world. The din of the street seemed to echo the intolerance of the universe. md be sure and have it nice and fresh.” too. uts ear t-broke eeu The speaker knew al! this. He was glib. It was his busi- I 0 GAM ri . CUR OWN OLEMEIO GAM ness to know his audience-—to strike at the right time SHOT PUT when they were hungry. It was his business to weep with po. them, to curse with them over the System. And then to fire them with raging torrents of well-planned words—that they, filled with his oratorical moonshine, "would seize the ‘Thing, the System, the Octopus that bound them hand and |foot, that took the bread from their babies, that crushed tem into the grime of the street. The glib speaker fawned on his prey. ai) Men, first mildly pe iacine interested in his talk, now stared with bulging eyes and Frank Tinney ee ae clenched fists. The poison had done its work. The glib ts arrested hitting Im Te aria raw: > en? . ne son, Follies star. Imogene did not speaker smiled. It had been a successful meeting. hit back, so why do the newspapers ay ter yefex' tober Sa. ERIS DeERTeY We, ON First ave. in the Masonic clubroom another Geis ie nates speaker addressed an audience an audience of smug, Why do you shrick? well-dressed men and women. They were not blue. They You got the front page had not lost their jobs. Their pay had not been cut. They AM last week had just finished a chicken dinner with all the trimmings. a et They were warm. The lights were bright. The musicians sidhon i nt ag °f ‘had lulled them into serene contemplation of the evening's points out how intel-;Program. All was peace, quiet The speaker knew this. He was glib. It was his business to know his audience—to strike at the right time—when RAN ee alae they were not hungry. To laugh with them, to curse with ANDIDATE FOR THE 9 POISON IVY CLUB j {them over the System—the System that permits The People The bimbo who boards o street | |to raise their voice in protest against governmental. graft | | car early in the morning and! laeainst the passage of special privilege laws or to initiate t i 20 bill, * : Basan pack Se aes * measures for their own protection. Old Silas Grump, the of Pumpkin Hollo ys that in rural communities tuning in on the radio is rapidly taking the place of tu in on the party line. sage HE speaker was Harry F. Atwood, of New York. He was addressing members of the Associated Industries at their annual meeting. He was championing the American plan of labor and cursing the direct primary, referendum Maes jand recall, Pe ist aca ces “Want a sample of the referendum?” he asked his @ Takes more than a sitpence audience. “I'll give you one. When Jesus Christ ap- To keep from being dry. eee Scotch and Ryc | peared before Pontius Pilate, Pilate, sitting in the dig- nity of a judge, heard the evidence and told the crowd he could find no fault with Jesus. What did the crowd say? Why the crowd said, ‘Crucify Him!’ The referen- One way to ride home in a taxi for notifing is to make the chauffeur | drive backward y the time you pad . a dep arrive home with the meter in re-| dum isn’t new, isn’t progressive; that’s the way it verse, the company will owe you) worked in the time of Jesus Christ and that’s the way money. | | it works today.” | For two hours the speaker harangued his crowd. He | i He saw his fire eat its way | studied his audience carefully. into the minds and hearts of his hearers. When th stood, finally, and shook », he grinned. He knew it had to know his audience. the rafters with applaus been a successful meeting. DELAY JAILING POSTAL SALARY OF M'DONALD BILL VETOED Whatever troubles Adam had. And Adam did not have them all, He never made the green in one—_ And then took six to hols the ball! eAtbag eutighting | imagine a} Workers for Better Pay glad {t wasn't the cliampionship. Can you Aged Man While Drunk heavyweight champion with a name| peter McDonald, found guilty of} WASHINGTON, June 7 Dashing like Cyril? contributing to the delinquency of |the hopes of 200,000 postal clerks, ap gee were retired | bis 16-year-old son William, by a Jury [carriers and other employes, Prest- from active service yesterday, and| Friday, will not be sentenced until|dent Coolidge today vetoed the $68, Chief Mantor wants to givs them a/ next Tunesday or next Saturday, |000,000 postal salaries tncrease bill vacation for the rest of thelr lives.| uty prosecutor Hert Ross | In n message to congress return. Suggestion to City Editor: Why | DPN} ing the measure without hin approv not send one of them to Aluska in | Saturday ; an open boat? McDonald was given two days injal, the president said he could not eee | which to file a motion for a new trial!sign it because of the expenditure | Judge Boyd J. Tallman. tavoived ILLUSTRATED SECTIO | by . poor: EE | His attorneys expect to enter the| ‘pe government extravagance motion probably Monday when it will! must stop,” he said. "The people of be argued. |the nation ore paying all that it is } McDonald is the father of the 16-| possible for them to pay. I have ly “old boy who, while Intoxicated ken my position In relation to yg | from liquor obtained for him by his overnment economy, which I have ltather, ran down and killed an aged | ated and restated until it 9 well Er yedistrian in the south end of the! known. ne sar areat [eity The boy faces manslaughter| “T feel that that position ought to| charges. |be consistent.” —— Mr. Coolidge pointed out that the bill would add approximately $68, 000,000 to the annual expenditurés of —Photo by Jacobs “trie lovely snapped by J photographer, with a Brownie No. It shows the heavenly cvonstella- | @. Reading from left to right: 1.) ea aman moon, 2, Tie planet | G . | | the government . eaten | 00 mes “It makea no provision for raising ‘ 5 PGES © || this amount as postal revenue,"* the X-ray ts perfected in New York | : |president said. ‘The money must| that can see thru clothes or any \| Lumber Industry eae from the pockets of the tie other substance 60 feet away Vi a | payers,'* Run, girls, runt Still Holds Own | Converning the Cable corrupt. prac. | scone \| Lead Maintained tices bill providing a complete sys Oh, the man worth while 11 lumber industry, in spite of|tem of regulation of campaign ex Is the man who can omile | its recent slowing down, is still | penditures which was attached to the hen his nelghbor struggles | ioiding itn own with other good| Postal bill as a rider, the president ong. with a ‘song. years and, with one exception, is |%@ld he would have approved it had ede ahead of previous y in both pro: |!t stood alone Joney talks. But thatla nothing. |quction and sales, according to the people can make every penny | wet Coast Lumbermen's asoctation’s American Warship ummary just issued. Wie | Production for the first weeks | Sent to Albania diy an toda lof 1924 maintains @ load of. 0.61 per WASHINGTON stroyer | Durazzo, Minister June 7. Bulwer has been ordered to| Albania, to assist American Smith to maintain radio (June 0) | Up, nnd this day put on my new plaid |cent over last year, and is ahead of xolt the Inst four years by margins run ning from 16 to 108 per cent, supper, Little Brew Jr. heing for some mustard, the rogue mtald halt m Sales, while 11 per cent lower than | communication and to report on tho Hour in the streets, it seems fighting, at | the same period last year, | revolutionary situation, the navy de wisteh 1 wan very | 4 rsselte te ‘oars 1920, 921 and 1922] partment was advined today by Vico Use ao razor strop mp 1 Der and 14 per cent respec: | Admiral Andyews, commander of th |American fleet in Buropean waters ehance, It do appear he won, J. 8. a areca st a petri The Newspaper He is paid well) cen soit Father of Boy Who Killed Coolidge Dashes Hopes of With the Biggest Circulation in W e Seattle Star at the F 4 at Beat SEATTLE, WASH., S CITY LEV 0 BE CUT 5 RESULT Property Sale Called Off; Action to End Long Battle, Thinks | | Prosecutor county-city I wish I had half of it the elevator boy at t building to the elevator t" was the Puget Sound Power & Light company's check for $6 0, pald to Sheriff Matt Starwich T protest Saturday for the 1919 street railway taxes A group of county officials were present when Starwich turned the heck over to County Treasurer W Shiolds. Col, H 4 Hanson, chief civil puty in Prosecuting Attorney Mal nim Douglas’ office, whose pet baby during the pe the sult to on the Douglas t five years has been collect the taxes, beamed k fe Prosecutor active in the closing stage litigation, looked proud of hin affair Starwich and Under-sheriff Archie hinson there with “the papers MAY BE START OF LONG LITIGATION The payment of the tax, believes, part In the Me were marks the closing chapter n the litigation so far as the county is concerned, But the company has |nxticated it marks only the’ begin. julng of the UUgation against the ty to force the city to pay three- fourths of the tax Dill as agreed In |the contract of purchase of the street | railway lines. | | Deputy Hanson gave a brief sum mary of the litigation that has ex tended over four years. The tax was ue March 31, 1919, the day the trans fer of the lines wan made. The tax came before the board of equalization in October, 1919, and the amount con firmed, In December the power com Joined with the city in a suit X null and void. pany o declare the ta JUDGE ALLEN HELD IT VALID TAX The case came to trial before Judge Clay All June, 1920, who held it a legal 1 valid claim against the company, The decision was appealed to the state supreme court, where Judge Allen's decision was upheld. A rehearing before the entire court hen was asked and the entire su preme bench upheld the validity of the decision. Deputy Hanson fought the case all way thru the litigation. The case was taken to the U. §. court by the company and Hanson jwon the first skirmish there when |he obtained an order dismissing tho appeal on the city’s » of error, |In February this year, the highest tribunal upheld the validity of the tax claim and later denied the company's motion for a rehe. PAYMENT TO CU MILL, FROM TAXES The remittitur anhouncing that the case was cloned was received by the county In April and Inst month Treasurer Shields began suit to col- Iect the tax, The company again brought legal action, this time in the federal court, in an effort to prevent distraint and sale of its property, which was selzed by Shei iff Starwich and advertised to be sold June 10. The federal court's decision finally settled the caso and the company, under written protest, tendered its check to Shields Saturday, supreme |from the 1925 tax levy, | ficlals declare. KINNEAR PICKED | Will Head Assoviated Indus- tries Another Year county of- | Roy J. Kinnear will head the As- | soclated Industries of Seattle for another year, He was re-elected president at the meeting held Fri- day night, George W. Penny, first vice president; J. §. Gibson, second | vice president, and Paul C. Harper were also chosen for another term. | pletion of arrangements for a group [insurance plan for all employes and members of the Associated Indus tries. | Judge Harry | | | Atwood of New York spoke to the audience for hours on “The Constitution of United Staten.” He held rapt attention during this two the them in time. | WASHINGTON, June 7.—The| —The do-|Sutherland-Jones bill, drafted to pro-| along camo a tect Alaska salmon fisheries, has |been signed by President Coolidge | The bill provides that there shall | be no more special concessions to cannery corporations and that fishing hall not be wllowed nearer 1,500 feet the mouths Lroams from of ‘ + Douglas | The tax payment will cut one mill| President Kinnear announced com-| shington pder the Act of Congress March 8, 1819, Per Year, by Mall, 92.60 ATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1924 To Circle Peak in Air New York Newspaper Girl Here Preparing for Alaskan Flights Here, preparing to circle Mount McKinley in the air “for }a story,” Mazie Carruthers Deyo, well-known as a New | York newspaper woman, is at the New Washington. She| has just returned from one trip to Alaska. —Photo by Frank Jacoba, Star Staff Photographer BY G. LUCILLE BUTLER EVER marry a newspaper n, because the further they | international conferences. go the busier they get,"’ is the advice; She. made the trip from Paris to ie Carruthers Deyo, interna.-| Turkey by airplane in four hours known newspaper woman | during the wartime upheavals there, and writer, who, having recently re-| and declares the life of a foreign cor- turned from a trip to Alaska, is mak-| respondent {s replete with interest Ng arrangements in Seattle to re-|and thrills. turn to the northland, fly around Mt.| Another tnteresting portion of her | McKinley via airplane and make the| Work abroad was serving for one! Fairbanks-to-Nome trip by the same |year as the Paris representative for| medium. [the American Newspaper Fashions Misy Deyo during her affiliations | Syndicate—selecting the latest Paris- with the New York Journal and the|/an models and modes that delight Now York Times had the distinction |Our eyes in the newspapers. of covering the three league of na-|SHE IS WRITING tions meetings, and represented the |ALASKAN NOVEL her ability to speak French have been of inestimable value tn covering the Paris ‘Le Figaro’ at the disarma.| ‘But T am freelancing now,” she ment conference. confessed, ‘writing a novel of Alas-| ‘Say « ka, doing a series of special articles LUCKY AC for a syndicate, and possibly some ar- ticles for Collier's and other maga- ‘IT zine a flecjared It Was) For her Mt. McKinley expedition | just'n succession of lucky accidents] ne ig endeavoring to secure the sere | Asked for her recipe for success Miss Deyo modestly that’ made possible her writing ca-\icqs of Mr. Elson, famous ‘pilot in| She does not belleve It vital toline airplane mall ‘service operating take @ course in Journalism in order|ietween Fairbanks and fecrath =| 0 become a successful writer. She is, however, & graduate of|from the government Wellesley, and says her previous|make the trip. knowledge of European affairs and She is at the New Washington. This Sounds to Us Like Somebody’s Fairy Story that is, if she can get permission | to have him} oO" IT’S great to be a king! piping hot meal brought to where Forty of them—count ‘em,/he lay in his chair watching the 9 were in Seattle Saturday, a'liv-|scenery flit by. Jing the life of Riley. With a de luxe headed by Louis W. Did ho ever have to get off the chairman|‘'#n and dig for himself into the staff of valets, Hill, * DYNAMITE USED NOW ON YELLOW JACKETS IN ALASKAN TOWNS tle a stick of dyna with and short bove the neat. In th after the insects have retired. fuse is touched off and a city jackets 1s no more Alaska development its forward,” said Doremus, Jally in regard to the entertain ment of tourists, That country has the greatest tourist posslbl ties of any spot on earth. When more accommodations are avail able there will be a remarkable influx of visitors. But the man who hunts big game and seeks new places to fish, the man with plenty of money to spend, wants every accommodation for his com fort and convenience. Many of these are lacking now, but some tay will be available JAPAN CABINET RESIGNS DUTY fus going ‘enpe Quits After Defeat TOKYO, June 7.—The Japanese lcabinet of Premier Kiyoura resigned | Inte today. The action was a result of the re- cent elections, In which Klyoura’s party wae defeated AIR SQUADRON * IS AT AMOY Hongkong on Sunday LONDON, June 1—America’s round-the-world flyers arrived at Amoy, 500 miles from their Shang-| | hat taking-off place, a. m. today, five hours after start-| ling the southward course. Perfect weather conditions were experienced, the reports stated. Amoy !s an old treaty port, where | the flyers expect to stop over Satur- | day and go on to a ko on to Hongkong Sunday. DEATH DRIVER HELD DRUNK | Man Killed in n Tacoma; Auto- ist Is Seized in Chase TACOMA, June being drunk when his auto struck and almost instantly killed an un- | identified man in front of the Union station shortly before midnight last | Night, Felix Jelink, $5, was held in | Jail here today pending the filing of & manslaughter charge. 2 FLYERS HURT | Believed Dying. After They | | Strike Ground on Heads DENVER, June 7.—Captain Low- tell Yerex, stunt flyer, and Norman Fuller, Denver newspaper artist, were perhaps fatally injured when a plane piloted by Yerex crashed to the | ground in a tail spin from 2,500 feet | jin the air shortly before noon. | ‘The plane, an Oriole type, was bur: | |ied three feet in the ground and completely demolished. Wreckage struck both men in the head and knocked them unconscious It ts believed both have fractured TWO CENT Premier Kiyoura’s Ministry | | World Flyers Will Leave for | about 11:30) —Charged with | OT FATHER EDITION IN SEATTLE. ompany Pays $655,000 Tax "Sm. OFFICERS HERE SAY Daughter Who Aided Mother Bitter When She Accuses Father of Bootlegging N° charge will be pressed by the detective bureau agninst Mrs. Helen Wallaston, who, late Friday, fired a bullet into the back of her father, after he had threatened her not The shooting took place at ¢ home of the daughter's parents, Mr. and Mrs, EB, J. Pelletier, 602 12 K st Pelletier, at the city hospital, is weakening and may die, it wae sald arly Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Wallaston is at liberty on her own recognizance. Detectives who Investigated the af, fair said that the young wife's act ppeared just BY 8AM GROFF 4 66) (OTHER With the word on her lps and fear gripping her heart, Mrs. Helen Wallaston, 28, broke into the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Pelletier, 602% W. Ewing et. Friday and afternoon and ended a struggle between her father and mother by sending a bullet twisting and tearing into Pelletier’s back. “He was abusing mother,” she said. simply when Detective Lieut. Wil- lam B. Kent questioned her later. |“I heard mother scream and I just grabbed my husband's repeating rifle, pumped a shell into ft and j shot him.” | Pelletier was reported rapidly sink- |!ng shortly before noon and It was jfeared that he might die eon, | DENOUNCES FATHER AS A BOOTLEGGER a young woman betrayed no sor- Instead she denounced her {father as a bootlegger. To Kent she |told a story of her mother’s patient | suffering at the hands of a drunken | husband. The fact that Pelletier, her own father, lay groaning in pain and critically Injured in the city hospital | three floors above the detective office | had no visible effect upon her. While Kent talked to her, Mrs. Pel- letter sat in the outer office, holding | her daughter's baby son, Bhe plainly was suffering from the nervous strain, and later took the baby with her to visit her wounded husband. | “Father came home,” Mrs. Wallas- ton said, “about noon Friday and came into my home first. I live next door to mother. He was drunk and | started to tease the baby. I told him |to get out and leave us alone. He | went away and then soon after I heard mother’s screams, SOMETHING SNAPPED, SAYS GIRL WHO SHOT "Something snapped inside of me. T found my husband's rifle and ran jto their house, loading the gun as I went. When I opened the door, |father was threatening mother, and |seemed to be striking her. | She was holding her hands up and the gun went off. Then father seemed to fall and catch himself. He went out, and soon after we heard he had been found lying on a boat landing near |the house.” After the questioning, Lieut. Kent (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) FILE PETITIONS {8,000 Names on Compulsory School Measure Four hundred petitions for Initia- tive measure No, 49, the compulsory |school bill, bearing approximately 8,000 signatures, were filed Friday afternoon in the city comptroller’s. joffice. The petitions were filed under the name of William C. Ott. This is the first appearance of the bill in King county, 2,800 names. having been filed in Pierce county jearlier in the week, The city regis: |tration force was to begin the work lof checking the signatures at once. of the hoard of directors of the| facts about these towns thru which| skulls, together with internal injur-|Morty thousand names are necessary lGreat Northern raifroad, and Ralph] he was whirled. Not this king! All | Budd, road president, the party of) long the line the leading citizens astern newspapermen touring the|turned out to do him homage. Northwest on a special train as| In Seattle, for example, a com- guests of the road, have been in| mittee of welcome went east as far the seventh heaven of happiness|®% Cashmere, near Wenatchee, to lever since ‘leaving: Chicago. pick up the special train of the Did. they work? fourth estate royalty. On the com- y f {mittee was David Whitcomb, presi- | Ho, hum! Why speak of mental/dent of the Chamber of Commerce: | things? Dr, Henry Surzallo, president of the| If a man had a telegram to send) (tniversity of Washington; J. W. Ito his newspaper, he pushed the) gpangler, president of the Seattle button and along came an obliging} National bank; J. H. Bloedol of the secretary who took down his wire) Rioadel-Donovan Lumber Co, and in shorthand. {1 B, Deming of Bellingham, pre |. Did he ever walk the length of} dont of tho Pacific American Mshor tho ear to the table where the] jeq |box of fat Not he! He pu Havana cigars repose hed the button and} white-conted porter }who brought the box to him and | furnished the match as well. |SOUNDS TOO GOOD 1 BE TRUE, BROTHER Did he exert himself by to the diner for his meals? Not/entertained | often. "Twas much more pleasant} Saturday they were takon aboard | push the button and have a (Turn to Page 2, Column §) |GET ORIENTAL TOUCH ABOARD BIG LINER And Doo Brown, the mayor, was on hand at the station to seo that the visiting kings got a rousing wel Jcome, They spent the evening at the walking! club, where they were well lies. FIRES CHECKED Forest Blazes Di Die Down as | Rain Swamps Them Forest fires thruout the western {part of the atate had been. elther checked or extinguished Saturday morning by the rainfall of Iriday nd Friday night, alded by the fire fighter ording to George C. Joy, |chlef fire warden of the Washington | Forest Wire association | A stubborn blaze was being fought Friday in the forest reserve in Hast ern Lewis county Seventy men were pressed into service, but it is believed the blaze is now entirely checked, Rain Friday night aided the fighters. Thursday night rains put out blazes in Stevenson and Skamania counties: |to Ho the bill on the ballots. me hundred and sixty-one peti- ine for Initiative measure No. 61, the “gill netters’ fish bill," have so bigs Sie a as Good News: Seattle’s Growing More Children Here Schools Show Gain pulations from the completed attic school census show an increase of 8,807 children of school jage over the total for last year. | | | | | {ATTLE is growing | ‘The total census for the eight dis. |triets, reported to the board of education meeting Friday, js 72,085 children. ‘The Northwest district comprising Ballard, Green Lake and Wallingford, showed the heaviest in: * crease, k